Cork Grease

[Ed]

Decided to make some cork grease tonight. 80 grams of beeswax and I think I'm at about 120 grams of canola oil. Basically nuke beeswax and oil together in the microwave until it is a liquid and let it cool. Add oil until you get the consistency you want.

The only other recipe I have seen was from sneezy. I think it was 50 percent lard and 50 percent beeswax. I think any of the lip balm recipes out there that have coconut oil and beeswax would work well.

Anybody else make their own cork grease?

 

[jbtsax]

Let us know how that turns out. Are you going to put it into empty Chapstik tubes?

Since I have started melting paraffin wax onto my tenon corks and neck corks and then ironing it into the pores of the cork with a heated pad slick, I rarely have need for cork grease anymore. Of course, I don't use different size sax mouthpieces either which makes it easier.

 

[SOTSDO]

Them damn'd bees is ornery when ya steps on them, but those bitches make a damn fine raw material in beeswax.

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